Lawrence Block Quotes

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.

People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain.

People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different.